http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |• The White House refused to take sides in Iraq's civil war Thursday as government troops fell back again. The next day the advance on Baghdad miraculously halted. It turns out all those abandoned U.S. military vehicles used by al-Qaeda rebels were made by General Motors.

• President Obama signaled Thursday that the United States wants the Iraq parliament to get rid of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. You know how it is. Nouri al-Maliki's mistress tape recorded him asking her not to invite any black guys to the fall of Baghdad, and now he must go.

• President Obama addressed reporters Thursday to announce he will not send U.S. combat troops into Iraq to help government Shiite troops and he won't order U.S. warplanes to attack the Sunni army. He sincerely hates war. People keep declaring it in the middle of his backswing.

• President Obama sent three hundred U.S. military advisors into Baghdad to whip the Iraq forces into shape as the al-Qaeda's army approached the city. Americans had the same reaction when they heard he sent three hundred soldiers. Are they going to Baghdad or Sparta?

• President Obama sent three hundred U.S. advisors to train the Iraqi forces to defend their country. They need fresh perspective. The Iraqi general staff were trained on the De Gaulle Doctrine, which says that if you surrender at the beginning of the war, the U.S. will win it for you.

• Europe made plans to mark the centennial of World War I in August. The four year blood bath ended in the fall of the Kaiser and the Czar and the rise of Hitler and Stalin. People are beginning to think that the world isn't really worse off today, there's just better news coverage.

• Joe Biden led the cheers for the U.S. team the World Cup in Brazil Tuesday in the U.S. team's opening game victory over Ghana's soccer team. The vice president dodged reporters after the game. He's a little embarrassed because he picked Gonzaga to win his World Cup office pool.

• Jay Leno was named this year's honoree of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington. He's a great stand-up, he took a pay cut to help NBC, his ratings stayed on top and they canned him. California doesn't need the death penalty, it has the sixty-fourth birthday.

• The FBI arrested eighty-nine-year-old Philadelphian Johann Breyer Monday accusing the German of Nazi war crimes in World War II. You can always spot these guys in bars by the way that they equivocate. They'll say that Hitler wasn't such a bad guy, after all he killed Hitler.